It may have been with a mischievous sense of irony that one of the first
Russian businessmen to embrace Western-style capitalism displayed Andy
Warhol’s portrait of Lenin at one of his Surrey mansions. Or maybe it was
merely for the prestige.

Either way, Boris Berezovsky is now selling the limited-edition print as he
shrinks his holdings to pay off creditors and legal bills, according to
sources familiar with the oligarch’s affairs.

The Warhol portrait, worth up to £50,000, is scheduled to be auctioned by
Christie’s in London on Wednesday. It is one of several artworks that Mr
Berezovsky is understood

Court of Appeal
Published: March 3, 2015
In re M and Others (Children) (Abduction: Child’s Objections)
Before Lord Justice Richards, Lady Justice Black and Lord Justice Ryder
Judgment: January 27, 2015
When a court was determining whether, for the purposes of article 13 of the
Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980,
a child who objected to being returned to his country of habitual residence
had attained the age and degree of maturity at which it was appropriate to
take account of his views, the exercise required was a straightforward
examination of whether the terms of the Convention had been satisfied
without the use of any technical subsidiary tests